From: utzoo!watmath!csc
Newsgroups: net.suicide
Title: Dead babies in UNIX?
Article-I.D.: watmath.4014
Posted: Fri Dec 10 23:15:09 1982
Received: Sat Dec 11 00:56:58 1982

(I wanted to sent this to net.db, but it wasn't in our ngfile...)

	Some found poetry, from the version 6 kernel ("sys1.c"):

/*
 * Release resources.
 * Save u. area for parent to look at.
 * Enter zombie state.
 * Wake up parent and init processes,
 * and dispose of children.
 */
exit(rv)
	.
	.
	.
/*
 * Wait system call.
 * Search for a terminated (zombie) child,
 * finally lay it to rest, and collect its status.
 * Look also for stopped (traced) children,
 * and pass back status from them.
 */
wait()

	Even dead babies can be found in UNIX!

	Not afraid to submit to the silliest of newsgroups,
	Jan Gray ...watmath!csc